{"id":6088,"date":"2021-09-13T19:09:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T19:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/fra-continues-maize-purchase"},"modified":"2021-09-13T19:24:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T19:24:32","slug":"fra-continues-maize-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/fra-continues-maize-purchase","title":{"rendered":"FRA continues maize purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\">Zambia<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Food Reserve Agency (FRA) has continued buying Grade A white maize from farmers countrywide to enhance Zambia\u2019s food security. So far, the government agency had purchased close to 600,000 metric tons of the staple food, recording an achievement percentage of close to 200 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Agency, as at Thursday, 2nd September, 2021, purchased a total of 594,556.96 metric tons (MTs) of Grade A white maize during this year\u2019s on-going crop marketing season,\u201d said FRA Public Relations Co-ordinator John Chipandwe in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chipandwe noted that the purchased quantity was against FRA\u2019s maize purchase target for the current crop marketing season. \u201cThe purchased quantity (594,556.96MTs) is against this year\u2019s Agency maize purchase target of 500,000MTs, implying a percentage achievement rate of 118.91 percent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chipandwe explained that the latest purchased quantity was equivalent to 11,891,139 by 50-kilogram (kg) bags of white maize worth K1, 783,670,850.00.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Agency has continued paying farmers that have delivered their crops and is expecting additional funding from the Ministry of Finance,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Mr Chipandwe disclosed that FRA had already paid out K1,211,521,500 to small-scale farmers who supplied maize in the current crop marketing season. Meanwhile, the FRA Public Relations Co-ordinator encouraged farmers to continue selling maize to the government agency until October month-end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFRA wishes to assure farmers countrywide that it will continue buying Grade \u2018A\u2019 white maize even though the maize purchase target has been exceeded and that farmers should continue delivering their crops to any nearest depot,\u201d he said. Mr Chipandwe also reminded farmers to clean their crops before taking them to depots to ease the purchasing process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe marketing season will close by 31st October, 2021 as per FRA crop marketing calendar and farmers are reminded to ensure that they clean their crops before delivering to any depot as this will save on time spent at a depot as the Agency will only screen and receive their crop,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. The Food Reserve Agency (FRA) has continued buying Grade A white maize from farmers countrywide to enhance Zambia\u2019s food security. So far, the government agency had purchased close to 600,000 metric tons of the staple food, recording an achievement percentage of close to 200 percent. \u201cThe Agency, as at Thursday, 2nd September, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":6087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,8,16],"tags":[234,235,2631,2630,233],"class_list":["post-6088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-public-relations-co-ordinator-john-chipandwe","tag-white-maize","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FRA continues maize purchase - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Food Reserve Agency (FRA) has continued buying Grade A white maize from farmers countrywide to enhance Zambia\u2019s food ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/fra-continues-maize-purchase\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FRA continues maize purchase\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Food Reserve Agency (FRA) has continued buying Grade A white maize from farmers countrywide to enhance Zambia\u2019s food ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/fra-continues-maize-purchase\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-09-13T19:09:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-09-13T19:24:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2021\/09\/img-613fa53bbd409.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/fra-continues-maize-purchase#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/fra-continues-maize-purchase\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"FRA continues maize purchase\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-13T19:09:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-09-13T19:24:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/fra-continues-maize-purchase\"},\"wordCount\":326,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/fra-continues-maize-purchase#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2021\/09\/img-613fa53bbd409.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"Public Relations Co-ordinator John Chipandwe\",\"white maize\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/fra-continues-maize-purchase#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/fra-continues-maize-purchase\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/fra-continues-maize-purchase\",\"name\":\"FRA continues maize purchase - 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